| Show THE QVERlAND LIMTED Details of the Finest Train in the West MILLION DOLLARS FOR CARS Special Party to Ogden Yesterday to I See the Union Pacific Train Now in Service Takes Eighty New Cars to Make Up the Trains All Electric Lighted Buffet Barber and Library Li-brary Famous Observation Car I With Privato Boudoirs for Ladies Palatial Dining CarNotes It may noL bo generally known that the Ovcrlnd Limited from Chicago tp San Francisco via the Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific I lines Is the equal oC any swell train in the United States This means that it has no superior In the world The train runs both ways every day In the year and as It passes directly through Utah It Is Interesting to the public to Bee Its growing popularity For the express purpose of showing this train a party of Sail Labors Including In-cluding representatives of all the local lo-cal papers was yesterday taken to Ogden by Assistant General Passenger Agent D S Spencer and Traveling Passenger Agent H E Dunn of the Oregon Short Line Aside from the many social features of the trip the excursion was a memorable one to the guests as the look over the train was a revelation even to those who have seen various elegant trains In this country Superintendent J5 F Baker of the Pullman company was also on hand to explain the many features of the trains two of which the eastbound and westbound passed through yesterday yes-terday afternoon at about the same time CARS COST A MILLION A description of the train Is Inadequate in faithfully setting forth Its beauties and attractions In the first place there are four companies which have shared In the expense of putting on the service the Pullman company Chicago Chi-cago Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific To make tho service complete required eighty new carp at a cost of over 51000000 The extra number of cars was required because be-cause the train leaves Chicago and San Francisco every day and It takes nearly three days to make a trip so many trains are on the road at the name time All the caro are Identical In color and lettering Across the top panel Is the legend The Overland Limited while In small letters at each end of the panel Is the name of the owner of the car Pullman Union Pacific Southern Pacific or Chicago Chi-cago Northwestern The cars arc all of the standard color olive green and chaste gold decoration The train Is limited to eight cars although one being sent from Granger and another to Salt Lake makes a change In the number ELECTRICLIGHTED PALACE As the Limited stood In Ogden yesterday yes-terday with a steaming 1100 ready to pull out for California It consisted of only six cars and It Is the description of these cars which will be of interest Inter-est to the general public cNjext totho engine came the dynamo This has a Westinghouse dynamo and electric apparatus ap-paratus which Is operated from steam from the locomotive A uniformed electrician Is In charge He keeps the dynamo In shape day and night In the daytime to run the fans and wonder won-der of wonders the curling irons In the boudoirs which arc always hot At night the whole train fairly ablaze with light and the differently colored rooms arc made Into fairy palaces while the airy white and gold diner Is like a palace The rear of the dynamo car Is for baggage Next comes the composite car The front end of this Is for express ex-press and baggage then comes a barber bar-ber shop and bath then a buffet and then the library This apartment Is in a rich dark color with desks easy chairs and sofas It has a wellstocked library and the porter has charge and will see to the comfort of the passengers pas-sengers whether for their mental or physical welfare Tho barber looks out for his customers ns In a city shop This car Is for men only but the ladles can got tany book by asking the man DINING AND SLEEPING CARS The dln ° r la the third car In the train Its Interior Is In white and gold and the effect Is striking On the tables ore bunches fresh roses and the linen china silver and glass are of the finest description The car hat a steward chef and many assistants and Is Blocked like a metropolitan hotel One of these cars Is always In the train although they are changed terminals for the sake of cleanliness Two sleeping sleep-ing cars follqv like regular Pullman cars only I more elegant and with the I electric light and new features One of them IB 1 the Salt Lake car The I I Interiors arc the latest work of the Pullman artisans and each has seventy sev-enty electric lights which Include lights over each scat to be turned on I or off by the occupant The light Is unlimited as the dynamo can serve 350 16cnndl pow r lights I Twelve Inch electric fans are In the cars for use during the heated spells In the diningroom they are especially serviceable serv-iceable at all times THIS LADIES CAR The most elegant car In the train Is the last one It is new and novel being be-ing of the very latest design On onsIde on-sIde run a narrow corridor twothirds of UH length This opens Into six private I pri-vate boudoirs which are absolutely exclusive ex-clusive and built for only I two passengers passen-gers Each IB In a different finish birdseye maple oak cherry mahogany mahog-any redwood and so on Each has Its own comforts and makes a private car for two At tho end of the car Is tho observation drawingroom The rear Is one great plate glass with a door on the extreme side A wide and deep observation platform surrounded with bra o railings completes the train The drawingroom Is like the mens buffet with all the comforts of home and If the Indies wish a lemonade all they have to In Is to ring for the man As one of these palatial trains runs over mountain and prairie It requires Just twentyfour men to care for the passenger or passengers They are as follows Engineer and firemen conductor con-ductor head and rear brakeman eke trlclun baggageman barber buffet porter Pullman conductor four porters por-ters steward and chef In dining cur and eight assistants And they one and all are at the service of the passenger through the medium of electricity tam and compressed air so fleet ala the works of men Raoul la President W G Rnoul for so long the president presi-dent of the Mexican National has been elected president of tho National Railroad Rail-road of Mexico recently Incorporated under the laws of Utah As stated In The Tribune at tho time Mr Warren was only the temporary president for purposes of legal convenience He Is a New York lawyer and was here < to Incorporate the company In the Interests Inter-ests of the Speyers who as bankers arc reorganizing tho properly Mr Raoul has successfully operated the property and his retention Is a compliment to his ability As he has been In the past very close to the Gould management I It Is one more Indication that the property prop-erty will continue to be operated as a connection of that system from Laredo La-redo I I Railroad Notes The Ogden yard north of the S1 P machine shop Is crowded with material I for the Lucln cutoff J E ThornhlU has been appointed traveling freight agent of the Santa Fe with office at Salt Lake It Is always a pleasure to stop at Ogden just to get a cordial greeting from C A Henry the ticket agent for all the > roads at the Union station He Is one of the best known and most popular railroad men In the West The Salina Sun advocates a big blowout at that place by the citizens when actual work begins on the con structon of the Castle Valley railroad When the line gets to Castledalc the citizens of this burg will be ready to whoop cm up Emery County Progress Pro-gress The House Committee on InterState Commerce which has been holding a series of hearings on the question oC granting enlarged powers over railroad rail-road rates to the InterState Commerce Com-merce commission held a session Sat day evening when Josepl Nlmml formerly for-merly of the Treasury department appeared ap-peared as the first witness Latest developments in the Wiggins Ferry company deal Indicate that the SaiHa Fe hi > s purchased the St Louis JlnsaV Clly < fi Colorado l linp wjhlch Was owned by exGov D R Francis and John Scullln both of SL Louis This would insure the Santa Fe system sys-tem valuable Worlds fair site connections connec-tions and give St Louis an additional IIno to Kansas City and probably to Chicago ovor the Chicago PeorIa St Louis line One of the prettiest sights Imaginable Is to see the Rio Grande train running run-ning north from the Short Line or vice versa Yesterday the race was an exciting one the two trains seesawing In the lead all the way to Ogden but the Short Line won on this occasion rnnklng the run In fortyeight minutes The trains run side by side every day and the Rio Grande wins one day and the Short Line the next It makes things Interesting for the passengers L D Deal and T W Roylanco of Sprlngvlllo II R Phillips of Long mont Colo and W R Day and William Wil-liam OGara of Denver all promlnqnt railroad contractors reached here on Mondays train from the north and wore taken up Sauna canyon by LchI 1 Peterson proprietor of the White house These gentlemeo mad the trip solely to clinch the contracts for building I build-ing of the longtalkedof Rio Grande cutoff through Salina canyon They returned to Salina Wednesday evening and went north yesterday on the mornIng morn-Ing flyer Mr W OGata one of tho plncipal contractors says that work on the line will begin within ton days and that within sixty days 1000 men will be employed In the canyon on the now line Contracts so far con Bldoicd call for thirtytwo miles of road to the coal fields cast of hereto here-to Emery county Sallna Sun |
